Lisa Ferreira (right) and her neighbor Kit Basom visit inside Ferreira’s home in Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park in Boulder on July 21, 2016. Ferreira faced eviction after refusing to pay a newly implemented water bill at the mobile home park, however, she was vindicated this month when a district court judge ruled in her favor.

A Boulder District Court judge has ruled in favor of the Boulder mobile home tenant who faced eviction for her symbolic refusal to pay a water bill, but the decision will likely be appealed.

The ruling, issued earlier this month, reverses a February decision in county court, in which a judge ordered Lisa Ferreira — who has lived at the Orchard Grove Mobile Home Park, 3003 Valmont Road, since 1987 — evicted over $143 in unpaid water bills.

Ferreira, who represented herself in court during that initial proceeding, had refused to pay on principle; her contention was that her landlord, Michigan-based Riverstone Communities, was violating the terms of her original lease by charging for water — which the lease states is provided, along with sewer and trash services, at no cost to tenants.

Her argument, she felt, was bolstered by the fact that the Colorado Mobile Home Park Act says that park owners shouldn’t use eviction to collect unpaid fees for utilities and services.

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